Natsu woke up when the train stopped moving, he glanced up at Lissanna to see her smiling. Happy was giggling about something, the blue cat pointed to the bench across from him. What Natsu saw made his jealousy spike to new proportions. Lucy was asleep with her head resting on Gray's shoulder; he had his arm wrapped around her with his cheek on her head sound asleep. Natsu felt a devilish grin spread across his face. He threw a small fire ball at Gray who jumped and fell off of the bench as soon as it started to singe his hair. Lucy's cat Mimi, who has a speech issue with pronouncing letters that look a like, stopped her from banging her head on the arm of the bench.
Lucy stretched and yawned, following close to Gray and Erza as we left the train. Natsu noticed that Lucy kept looking around nervously, shaking as she normally did when she was scared. I looked to Lissanna and gave her a knowing look she smiled and grabbed Lucy's hand.
"You don't have to be nervous or scared Lucy-san." Lissanna said giving an encouraging smile.
Lucy smiled and seemed to stop shaking until someone grabbed her shoulder from behind. Hibiki from Blue Pegasus, flanked by Eve and Ren. Lucy screamed and hid behind Gray, who promptly started yelling at them.
"You idiot Hibiki! She is deaf and you scared her, now apologize" Gray snapped placing his arm around Lucy's shoulders.
"I am so sorry miss; I didn't mean to scare you. My name is Hibiki of Blue Pegasus." Hibiki flashed a smile.
"Hello my n-n-name is Lucy. It's n-n-nice to m-m-meet you." She said holding onto Gray for dear life.
"It's so cute that she is so shy." Eve mused. Natsu wasn't overly happy that they scared his new friend.
"Anyway we need to talk to you guys. So let's go grab some food." Ren said in his usual stoicness.
They all sat down to eat while talking and catching up. Lucy sat next to Gray and Hibiki who kept making passes at her, which annoyed Gray to no end. It seems that they were on a quest to rescue a girl supposedly kidnapped by Fairy Tail. Bob, their guild master, knew this couldn't be true but sent Hibiki and the others to find out what had happened. As it turns out Jude Heartfilia, Lucy's scum bag of a father, wasn't going to stand trial since he had paid off the judge. The whole conversation made Erza very angry. Angry enough that she crushed the soda glass she had in her fist. Lucy was smiling and humming away, unaware of the discussion since her hearing aids ran out of power.
She looked at Hibiki and the Trimen and smiled, they were latterly crying in terror of Erza's wrath. At her smile the trio blushed which pissed Gray off even more.
"Listen Hibiki, we didn't kidnap her she ran away and with good reason to." Erza said quietly putting her cake down.
"I can understand that but would you mind telling us why she ran?" Eve asked innocently.
"If you don't want to I can use my Archive to look at your memories." Hibiki prompted.
Erza nodded, and Hibiki began to run through Lucy's memories. Lucy had no idea what was happening and just kept humming to herself. Lissanna buried her face into Natsu's shoulder as the more graphic abuse came to light. After a minute Hibiki shut his Archive off, a disgusted and appalled look twisting his normally handsome features. Gray looked at Lucy who had no idea what was happening around her, and he wanted to keep it that way. She looked so happy, more so than she did yesterday.
Lucy stopped humming to herself when she saw the look on the three boys face. She frowned. That is not a good look for them. She thought. She was wondering what they were talking about but it was hard to read lips when you weren't facing the person talking. That and the batteries died in her hearing aids so she just started humming to herself. Even though she hated not having sound, the vibrations she felt made up for it. Until she felt strange vibrations in the floor. She jumped up and Ran out the door. An explosion had happened at the edge of town. Gray and the other followed suit until they came to meet a burning building with the entirety of the Dark guild watching.
One of the mages in the dark guild cast a spell. Within seconds of stopping in front of the guild, Lucy was tightly bound with vines that came forth at their master's call. Gray used his Ice magic to free her and the battle ensued with Erza, the Trimen, and Natsu taking care of the stronger mages. Leaving Gray, Lissanna, and me to handle the lackeys.
"I open thee, Gate of the Lion! Gate of the Maiden! And Gate of the Golden Bull!" I shouted as I opened the gate to three of my strongest spirits.
They set off into the fray, careful not to hurt the Blue Pegasus members in the process. Lucy looked toward the burning building; she could at least put out the fire.
"Barrios!" she shouted as she cast a barrier around the burning building. Making sure it was air tight as to starve the flames of the oxygen it needed to survive. All was going well until the dark guild stared winning. Pushing Erza back, making her go on the defensive. I ran to Lissanna as she was thrown back to try and heal her. Luckily the damage wasn't much so I was able to heal her without draining myself. I was beginning to think that maybe I would have to use that. But I didn't want to. I didn't want them to look at me like I was a monster. My decision was set the moment Lucy saw a sword impale Natsu.
I yanked the gold and silver marbled key that came with my curse. I large magic circle appeared on the ground where I stood. This took a lot of energy, but I didn't care.
"I open thee! Gate of the Hybrid! Lucyfeva!" I hollered.
Time seemed to slow down as my clothes vanished as I was enveloped in light. I split into the two forms that had become part of me. A boy who looked exactly like me and the girl me. Black wings sprouted out of Feva's back as the light around him turned to darkness, transforming into a pair of black ripped jeans and black boots. White wings came from mine as the light became a white dress for me with white heels. I flew to Natsu as Feva flew to take on the guild master.
"Healios Transfer!" I cast a spell. A green light ate away the wounds on Natsu, healing him without leaving so much as a scar. Unfortunately the Healios Transfer spell gave me his wounds. With a little extra, I gasped and gripped my shoulder as my wing bent into an unnatural direction. Breaking it in several places. Natsu looked at me strangely, worried and confused at the same time. But not disgust. I started spitting out fire for Natsu, who ate it greedily. He rejoined the fight leaving me to heal Hibiki and anyone else who was injured.
Feva was pissed, he gets very little time out and right off the bat Lucy gets herself injured. Sting and Rouge are not gunna be happy about this. Oh well he just had to beat these guys right? Then he would.
"Darkness Wave!" he cast and the guild master being so weak was out of the fight with that one attack.
Within minutes the fight was over, the only person being injured sat on her knees in pain. She had used the Transfer too much and now she was pretty beat up. I sighed and touched down, allowing my wings a rest. I stood ready to kill them at the first comment of Lucy being a monster and a freak. Surprisingly no one did. Natsu and Gray were trying to pull her broken wing back into position so Lissanna could bind it. She held onto Hibiki through her pain, trying her hardest not to scream.
The only thing that made this worse was that her dress left the whole of her back exposed. They had a full view of the scars that criss crossed her back. After they got her wing in place Natsu lost his lunch in a bush, not that I blame him. I did the same when I saw it too. Good news was that he didn't once call her a freak.
"You idiot! Why did you do this to yourself?!" he screeched. I signed to her what she said but she remained silent. Keeping her jaw locked tight so she wouldn't scream.
"Oi! She had to; if she just healed you she would have the magic left to heal everyone else." I said to the flaming idiot.
"So what about her scars?" asked Ren angrily. Jeez could they be any louder? I thought annoyed.
"Most are from her father. Others are from the Arena."
Apparently they knew what I was talking about. And they didn't seem to like it much. But then maybe I was mistaking it for disgust, and god help them if it was directed at her. Because I would have none for them. Eventually the pain became too much for her as she passed out, falling limply further into Hibiki's arms. I sighed.
"Okay how about this. I will fly you all to Fairy Tail and on the way I will do some explaining." I said.
I changed into my full dragon form, allowing everyone to climb on me like I was a jungle jim. I left Erza there to collect the reward money, Hibiki kept Lucy in his arms. Which was pissing me off greatly. I didn't like it when Sting and Rouge got that close to her, and they were her brothers. I took to the sky, flying slowly to Fairy Tail.
"Okay so when Lucy was ten her father sent her to the Arena. I don't think I have to tell you what happens there. She escaped from there and spent about two years on her own until she found Sting and Rouge. They were just kids, with no money or anyway to make money so they started stealing. They stole from a mage who cursed them, when the twins found dragons to teach them Lucy became plagued with a fever until they killed their dragons."
"So what about you and Lucy?" Eve asked. Who eeped as I glared at him.
"She cursed Lucy to be bound to a key and boom here I be. Playing taxi to a bunch of mages. Anyway think of Lucy and me as Nirvana. Lucy is everything good about the human heart where I am everything that is dark. Like this Lucy was able to learn every type of dragon slayer magic. But since I am not out all that often she only know Ice Dragon Slayer magic while she is human."
"Sounds painful." Natsu said.
"Only if she doesn't charge her magic before hand, other than that she feels nothing."
Hibiki listened to what the Dragon had to say, but then Dragon may not be the right word. He had a Dragon form but he wasn't born as one. He looked to the sleeping girl in his arms, remorse filling him. She looked so peaceful that is was hard to accept the life she had. If he hadn't seen it himself he would have never believed it. Just looking at her he wanted to protect her, to make sure she stayed smiling like she was earlier. They got back to the Guild Hall to find that her brothers were out on a quest. Wendy began healing her wing as soon as Hibiki set her down. Due to a Dragon's rapid healing Wendy didn't have to put forth much effort to heal it. Feva was back in human form and looking very annoyed.
"Ren, call Master Bob and let him know I will be staying at Fairy Tail for a while. That quest to get her went to multiple guilds." I called. Ren nodded as he did just that.
"So how long was she at the Arena?" Gray asked him as he sat down next to Lucy.
"She was ten when she was sent there and spent about five maybe six years there before escaping. Found the blunder twins when she was maybe seven teen or eight teen. Joined Saber Tooth at maybe twenty or so. You wouldn't remember her cause when they stopped at your guild, you weren't there and the master turned them down because she couldn't hear." Feva explained.
Half of Hibiki's mind agreed while the other half was furious. She would constantly need to be with someone since she wasn't able to hear. Unless she was able to prove otherwise. Since her wing was healed I began unbinding it, she woke up as soon as my hands touched her. She looked at me sleepily, then screamed as she realized how close I was to her. Maybe she was afraid I was going to twist her wing. But she ran and hid behind Feva shaking terribly. Feva huffed and looked annoyed. He grabbed her roughly and pushed into Gray's arms. She looked terrified of him, which didn't make any sense since they were guild mates.
Maybe she thinks they hate her? But why? Because of this form? Hibiki argued with himself.
"What the hell man?! You don't go pushing girls around!" Gray snapped at Feva who just glared.
"You ever hear the expression "dive right in"? She would never show you this for fear of you thinking she's a monster."
Wendy walked up to Gray and Lucy who was still looking afraid of Gray but made no moves to get away. Gray steadied her before signing to her. Natsu smiled at her, which replaced the trembling with a puzzled look.
"Wendy wants you to try and fly." Gray told her.
She nodded before flapping her wings enough to let her hover a few feet off the ground. She tried to go higher but her wing wouldn't support her weight as she wobbled down and tried to fly up again. She was doing well until she fell on top of Natsu who stood nearby; she sat on him for a moment breathing heavily. Then realized why she had a soft landing and promptly jumped up to apologize. But she lost her balance and fell back on her behind and without missing a beat began apologizing.
"Lucy! We're back!" Sting shouted as he entered followed by Rouge and their cats.
They stood before her shocked. She was in the guild hall in that form. Something she never would do, she would have ran and hid until Rouge or Sting found her. Sting ran forward and grabbed her in a bear hug, lifting her off of her feet. Feva set down his whiskey and grabbed Sting by the back of his shirt and threw him off of Lucy. Sting was thrown into Natsu who had gotten up. Immediately they started fighting.
"What was that for flash light?" Natsu yelled as he butted heads with Sting.
"It was your fault for being in the way, Tabasco freak!" Lucy ran in between them trying to get them to stop.
"It w-w-was and accident. P-p-please calm d-down." She begged.
"Well who asked you?" Natsu yelled at her. She jumped and started shaking again. Her wings drooped a little as tears formed at the corner of her eyes. Hibiki punched Natsu in the face before wiping away the tears that had spilled out.
Natsu felt bad for yelling at her, for one he scared her and two he wasn't very nice about it. Even if she only joined the other day, he saw her as one of his friends. His precious friends and he didn't want to lose another like he had lost Lissanna. Lissanna was scolding him for it but he wasn't really listening. He was looking at Lucy who was crying even through Hibiki tried to cheer her up. His ears perked up when Gray asked her why she was crying.
"N-Natsu was so n-n-n-nice. I didn't th-think he hated m-m-me. I should g-g-go apologize for m-m-making him angry."
She said as she jumped up to walk to the bar where Natsu sat with Lissanna who had figured out he wasn't listening and stopped scolding him. Feva got a devilish grin, one that didn't seem to bode well for anyone.
"He's not mad at you Princess. He's mad at himself because you got hurt." Feva said loud enough for Sting and Rouge to hear.
Before you could say fire, Natsu was out of his chair running to the door with Sting and Rouge on his tail. Damn you Feva! I don't care if he was right! Now I am gunna die if those guys catch me! Natsu mentally yelled at the Black Dragon sitting at the bar drinking more whiskey with a smirk on his face.